When fentanyl properly "arrives" here (Ireland) its going to be a fucking bloodbath, and our government will wring their hands and go "there's nothing we could

When fentanyl properly "arrives" here (Ireland) its going to be a fucking bloodbath, and our government will wring their hands and go "there's nothing we could have done". I mean, it (fentanyl) exists here, but is relatively rare for now. We have large numbers of opiate users, most of whom are not the "homeless drug addicts" you would expect (though we have fucking loads of those). We also have a massive number of people hooked on benzos and similar drugs, which here are almost all "legit contents, but dodgily branded generics from Asia". Again, the vast majority of these addicts you wouldn't notice/know about. From the data I've seen, in the US and Canada, both opiates and benzos are supplanted by fentanyl - fake benzos that are actually fentanyl, fent sold as oxys, sold as heroin, etc The quality of heroin here tends to be pretty low, so whenever a stronger batch arrives there's often a number of deaths or near fatal overdoses. Once fentanyl starts showing up in any significant amounts, there's probably going to be a fucking massive spike in overdoses. The opiate problem here is only getting worse too, the governments been sitting on its hands and various plans to try deal with it besides just arresting people have languished in committees/planning for as long as I can remember. Pretty much daily when out walking in a residential area I come across discarded syringes, the frequency of which increases the closer you get to the city center. I regularly see users nodding off or shooting up in public, and that's just the visible ones. Seen a fair few OD's too, called ambo for a couple. Narcan and similar aren't really accessible here - our health service has made a lot of noise about an access program, but the iron grip of the regulator won't simply make it OTC for private persons to purchase without paperwork. Supervised injection rooms and such have also stalled out entirely due to nobody wanting one near them. Which is a bit daft. If you walk around central Dublin, Temple Bar, etc, you will see dozens of people openly using "hard" drugs on the street. That is where the addicts are. So building a facility there makes sense, right? The local businessmen disagree, due to magical thinking that if its built somewhere else, the addicts will move. They won't. I'm almost glad that the worst we have to contend with (for now) is the crack epidemic finally hitting our shores.